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To ALL wnoM LT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, SHEDERICK J. LOWE, of Quincy, Adams county, State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fire-Kindling Lamps; and I do hereby declare the following description and accompanying drawings are s'ucicnt to enable any person Askilled in the art or science to which it most nearly appertains to make and use my. said invention or improvements without further invention or experiment.

The `nature of my invention and improvements consists in'providing a lamp with a traversing-wick tubes made adjustable that it maybe moved in and out when required; and in making said traversing adjustable wicktube bent or curved that it may be moved in and out to vary the position of the burning end of the wick; and in a case fastened tothe oil-vessel, to hold and guide the wick-tube; and in certain devices to hold the wick-tube as desired; and in a shield or guard-plate, arranged in front ofthe oil-vessel, to keep the heat of the fire kindled from heating the oil-vessel; also in a partitionin the oil-vessel to hold back the oil when the lamp is tipped, and prevent it from running to the wick so 'freely as it would do if there were no partition. In the accompanying drawingsl Figure l is a plan or top view of a lamp with my improvements.

Figure 2 is a section on the line z z ofhg. 1.

Inthesedrawings, A is the oil-vessel, which may be made in the form shown, or in such other form as will answer ythe purpose, and providedwith a screw-cap, B, through which it may be iilled with oil, which screws cap has a small hole in its'apex to let in the air asv the oil is exhausted by beingburnt. I make a long slot in lthe top of the'vessel A, and fastenvthe` case C of the wick-tube H in said slot, which case C' is curved, as shown in fig. 2 of the drawings. I brace the case C by the bracket F, and fasten the handle. G to the'vessel A and case C. -I make a serpentine wick-tube, H, in the form of a wma-reversa, about three inches wide, and one-eighth of an inch deep, and 'tit one end to slide and traverse in through the case G nearly or quite to the vessel A, so that it may be slipped out, to light a fire, to the position shown in dotted lines H', when the end of the wick-tube will be as low as the bottom of the vessel A, to light the fire to be kindled. After the fire isr` kindled it maybe pushed back, so that the outer end of the wick-tube will be'higher than the top of the ol= i vessel, so as to prevent the oil from running t'o waste. This wick-tube is provided with one'or more slots, I, to

inserta pinfand adjust the wick. I fasten the knob J to the top of the tube H, bywhich knob the tube may' be traversed, and, when pushed back, may be held by the ring K hinged on the' case C, so that it may be laid The plate L is hinged to the case C, and has a slot, M, in it, in which the knob J'traverscs, and stops the knob when the tube is slidout for use. The upper part of the slot M is made so wide that the plate L may be turned back off of -the knob when it is desirable to take the tube H out to put in a new wick. l

'Figur-e3 is an extinguisher, which may be applied to the wick-tube toput out the light..

This extinguisher has the pointed wire N fastened to itA to pick up or adjust the lamp-wick R.

Ipnt a partition, P, across the vessel A, and make one or more small holes' through it at the bottom for the oil to pass through slowly. This partition holds a part of the oil back when thc lamp .is tipped, and prel v ents it from pressing on and running through the wick so'fast as it might otherwise do.

To prevent the re kindled from heating the oil-vessel A, I apply a guard or shield-plate, Q, and arrange it a little distance in front of the vessel, as shown in the drawings, and fasten the ends to the vessel A, and.

the to'p to the c ase C; This plate prevents the rays of heat from the rc from coming in contact with the oilvessel. v v i To use this lamp to kindle a fire, light the wick and run'out the tube, and apply it to the wood or matel rialstobe kindled until they begin to burn, when the lamp may be taken away, and the tube run in and fastened by the ring K.

Having described my improvements v y 1'. I claitnn lamp, provided with a traversing'adjustable wick-tube that may be moved or slid in and out when required. 2. I claim making the traversing adjustable wick-tube of a lamp curved, substantially as describedfor the purposes let forth.

3. In combination with the oil-vessel,I claim the case C fo'r holding and Vguiding the wick-tube, substantially isA described. v

4. 'In combination with the traversing-wick tube, I claim the hingedslotted plate L :ind riiig'K for holding the wick-tube, as described.

5. I claim, in combinatio with the oilvesscl, th'e shield or guard-plate Q, aufmnged in front to keep the heat' of the ire kindled from heating the oil-vessel. l v

6. I claim;the partition in the oil-vesselto hold the oil back when the lamp is tipped, zindprevent it from tunning to the lwick so freely as it would do if there were no partition.

' ',SHEDERICK J. LOWE.

Witnesses:

R. W, BoYNroN, J. W. Lomi. 

